From Innovations to Standardization Workshop & Meeting Focus Group Bridging The Gap From Innovations to Standardization Tunisia 28th – 30th Jan 2014 Ajay Ranjan Mishra Chairman, Focus Group CEO – IM4i (www.IM4i.com) Email: ajay.mishra@im4i.com ajayr_mishra@hotmail.com Geneva, Switzerland,16-17 September 2013

Overview of Focus Group Set up at TSAG meeting of January 2012 Web http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/innovation First meeting 19 March in Geneva ICT Innovations Workshop on 20-21 March Objective of FG Document successful ICT innovations in developing countries Assess their potential for standardization to enable their implementation in other parts of the world Identify new standardization work items for ITU-T Study Groups Presentation / Author / Date

ICT Innovations and Standards Lack of standards is a barrier to Innovations A balance between innovation and coordination is often achieved by market-sensitive standardization - Krechmer- Open Standards promote interoperability and drive innovation in Developing countries. Test beds for innovation Market size and network effects Standardization can enable globalization of innovations Open Standards play a key role in providing interoperability and thus provide a solid foundation on which innovation can take place to develop new, smarter solutions. Innovation is a change made by introduction of something new. Krechmer (2006) observes “A balance between innovation and coordination is often achieved by market-sensitive standardization.” In addition, developing countries are expected to play an increasingly important role in ICT innovation. The market size of developing countries provide unique opportunities for leveraging on network effects to drive innovation. Many of the innovations that are happening at one place could be utilized in other places in the world – standardization could play a role here and eventually lead to globalization of innovation. Presentation / Author / Date 3

New Management Team Chairman: Ajay Ranjan Mishra/ IM4i Vice Chairman: Ramy Ahmed/ Egypt Vice Chairman: Rim Belhassine-Cherif/ Tunisia Working Group Chair: Ramy Ahmed/ Egypt Working Group Chair: Mridul Tiwary/ India Secretariat: Vijay Mauree/ TSB Algiers, Algeria, 8 September 2013

Highlight Worked on the link between innovations and standardization Worked on analysis of more than 200 innovations in last 2 years Able to connect more than 40 countries across the developing world on this platform Innovation Challenge generated tremendous interest. Won by “MMS for Deaf” innovation by Prof Mohamed JEMNI from Univ of Tunis FG held its meetings and workshops in Geneva, Tunis, Moscow, New Delhi few times in last two years. We hope that our proposal on “Innovation Panel” is accepted by ITU in June 2014. Algiers, Algeria, 8 September 2013

WG 1 WG 2 Working Groups Mridul Tiwary Dr Ramy Ahmed Nokia Solutions & Networks Dr Ramy Ahmed Telecom Regulatory Egypt Need to appoint teams for WG 1, WG 2 and WG 3. 6